GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

BIOLOGY

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The practitioners of this medical field, believe that a substance that causes symptoms of a disease in healthy people would cure similar symptoms in sick people; this doctrine is called “similia similibus curentur", or “like cures like". Identify this medical field which is considered pseudoscientific by many exponents of modern medicine.
A
Homeopathy
B
Allopathy
C
Ayurveda
D
Yunani
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Its practitioners, called homeopaths, believe that a substance that causes symptoms of a disease in healthy people can cure similar symptoms in sick people; this doctrine is called similia similibus curentur, or “like cures like". Homeopathic preparations are termed remedies and are made using homeopathic dilution.

Detailed explanation-2: -In homeopathy, health is considered as mental, physical and emotional wellbeing [1]. The disease is the dynamic disturbance of harmonious relation between the material body and vital force that stimulates the body in health [2].

Detailed explanation-3: -Concept of Vital Force Hahnemann discovered that the human body is endowed with a force that reacts against the inimical forces, which produce disease. It becomes deranged during illness. Such reactions of the deranged vital force are the cause for the externally expressed signs and symptoms. Dr.

Detailed explanation-4: -Allopathy targets the specific organ or part that is affected in the body, but there is always a risk of side effects and infection spreading to the neighboring body parts. Homeopathy is usually risk-free as it has no effects on other body parts, and aims to cure the whole body and not just the affected part.

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